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Paul Delamater featured on CBS17 about vaccine plateaus
April 26, 2021Faculty Fellow Paul Delamater was recently featured on CBS17 discussing vaccination rates in NC. Both Delamater and Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson were also interviewed for a piece in NC Health News about vaccine slow-downs.
Whitney Robinson featured in The New York Times
April 22, 2021Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was featured in a New York Times piece on how epidemiologists are planning to vacation with their unvaccinated kids.
Fellow Avery wins Teaching Innovation Award
April 11, 2021Christy Avery, MPH, PhD, won this years’ Gillings School of Global Public Health Teaching Innovation Award. One nominator wrote “Dr. Avery has led a sustained effort to revamp Epidemiologic training to more accurately define and measure race and racism. Although race and racism were not core parts of her scholarship, she sought out opportunities to…
Fellow Robinson wins award from SER
April 11, 2021Whitney Robinson, MSPH, PhD, received the 2021 Noel Weiss and Tom Koepsell Excellence in Education Award from the Society for Epidemiologic Research’s (SER), which recognizes her “substantial contributions to the field of epidemiology through teaching, training and mentoring”. T. Whitney has been invited to give a talk during the Plenary Session of the SER meeting,…
Fellow Pettifor featured in The News & Observer
April 11, 2021Faculty Fellow Audrey Pettifor was featured in the News & Observer discussing a new trial to understand how well COVID-19 vaccines prevent people from spreading the coronavirus to others. Her work was also featured on ABC Action News.
Fellow Delamater featured in Penn LDI’s series on Vaccine Equity
April 9, 2021Faculty Fellow Paul Delamater was featured in a video interview with the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. The interview is part of Penn LDI’s new series “COVID Vaccine Equity Research Dialogues (CoVEReD)” featuring leading national experts on equitable vaccine distribution.
Fellow Whitney Robinson appears on Marketplace
April 9, 2021Faculty Fellow and epidemiologist Whitney Robinson appeared on Marketplace to discuss her pandemic child care decisions.
Fellow Thomas quoted on PRI
March 26, 2021Faculty Fellow Jim Thomas chatted about vaccine ethics on PRI's The World.
Fellow Yong Cai featured in Washington Post
March 8, 2021Faculty Fellow Yong Cai, who focuses on China's birth policies, was interviewed for a recent Washington Post article about a drop in China's birth rate.
Fellow Poteat’s HIV work highlighted
March 5, 2021Faculty Fellow Tonia Poteat recently co-authored a research paper entitled "HIV and women in the USA: what we know and where to go from here" which was published in The Lancet. From a story on these research efforts published on TheBodyPro: “Any decrease in new infections is good news,” said Tonia Poteat, Ph.D., PA-C, M.P.H.,…